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atta iraiiPiTiliiiiliJiiiilillillliiiii 0 On 5-mlnuta blest on sirens and whistles is the signal lor a blackout In Klamath ralli. Anothar long blast, during black out, la ilgnal (or all-clear. In precau tionary parlodi, watch your atraat lights. i1''i.i-Minri.nni-inr . - n .'-.'.'.- r. . nilliiirililld'ini.i'.nihi'i, KiiJi-l!!!!,:!)!!!!!!:!!!!!-:!::,: -i wwmmmmimmmmmm. li ill 1 lie. ill III, l! ' !: ! !,. I mm II I j i if ! Ill I Itt l I IM l U.i i i' 'i illlllftgllilfll ;-'. . J : " : ' ' - . , By FRANK JENKINS A SHOT 1" the dark today: O On tho fuce of AVAILABLE news, the Russian situation looks bad; If It Is really as bad as tho news nvuilable to us ordinary outsiders Indicates, It I time fur our slda to ba getting into the fight with some sort of diversion to relievo the pressure on tho Russians. . We haven't done II yet. THE natural conclusion Is Hint the situation (as known to the Insiders) ISN'T as bod as on the surface It appeurs to be. Tho only other possible con clusion Is that our side Is so weak or so locking In bold and resourceful leadership as to bt UNABLE to do any more than It Is doing already. To believe flint would be to believe the worst. SO- It Is better to presume that on the basis of, facts known to our leaders the time isn't yet ripe for us tn start full-scale diversion In uejiall vot the Rue- alana.', ,,,,- ' ; must keep In mind that our side certainly has a plan to meat the situation as it develops. Whatever this plnn Is, It must be KEPT SECRET from the enemy. The quarterback who tips off his opponent in advance to the plays he -Is going to use Is reas onably suro to lose the garhe. About all wo outsiders can do la wait and seo what happens. - "TODAY'S dispatches tell us that a crisis In tho shipping situation hos arrived. OShip losses during the week ending July 12 reached the high est level since the beginning of ' tho war. While construction In U. S. shipyards Is breaking all records, sinkings of United Na tions ships through enemy action and marina casualties (ordinary shipwrecks) have GREATLY EX CEEDED new 'construction. Britain Is continuing construc tion of merchant ships within the limits of her available labor and materials, but her volume Is not large. The burden rests on us. "THAT Is to-soy, with all our genius for mass production, with all our tremendous re sources of raw materials and skilled labor, we are LOSING OUT In tho raco with tho sub marines. VflSJANWHILE Henry J. Kaiser, f .one of our most resourceful and colorful Industrialists, pro poses a project that Is breath taking In its imaginative scope; Instead of surface ships, he lays, build giant cargo-carrying AIRPLANES. Build them In SHIPYARDS. Use nine yards three on the Pacific Const, thrco on tho At lantic and three on the Gulf. The shipyards, ho adds, could ba converted easily from mass construction of surface ships to mass construction of airships. ' He foresees a fleet of planes capable of carrying 00,000 men to England in one day and de livering 70,000 tons of food and munitions to the British Isles the next.' tJE Is Joined In his proposal by : Andrew J. Hlgglns, who has been building ships on a huge acnle In New Orleans. The scope of his operations may bo Judged from the-fact that he has Just had n contract for TWO HUNDRED ships can celled; on the ground that there la Insufficient steel. ' He believes with Kaiser In the feasibility of tho cargo-carrying plane idea. Both point out that "(Continued tin I'nvn Seven), ,. ... r n UUM AXIS CLAIMS British, U. S. Forces Say Rommel Threat Seems Checked By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH Atsoclstad Press War Editor The Gorman high command trumpeted today tliut tha lower Don, principal natural barrier to Invasion of the Caucasus oil fields, had been crossed on a broad front and that Rostov, guarding the river mouth, hod been hemmed In, its outlying organized defense collapsed. The tendency of Russian and British advices alike was to ward agreement with the enemy on the trend of the battle al though specific .German claim! were not confirmed--situation which lifted the question- of a econd front to importance out weighed only by the actual course of battle. , The fight had taken a turn toward the .worse such as Brit, tsh sources reantly '-hadvtor seori as likely to Impel the allies JiUof JmrhedlMa ' second Iroot -action Of it limited cliae-' aotor fltleeras thai?; Mid.' the allies probably wrfuld not : ba capable of an all-out European invasion this summer.' Battle of Egypt. The defense of tha Egyptian end of the Russian-allied line through the Caucasus and mid dlo east appeared to have been stabilized, with British and United. States alrforces victors In the aerial contest. German airmen had beep virtually driven from tho Egyptian sky, the British sold at Cairo, and Marshal Rommel's threat to Alexandria and tha valley of the Nile seemed to havo been checked, for the present at leost. Battle of Russia i Apart from the German clnlms, tho red army newspaper, Red Star, gravely announced that the Germans, pressing clos er to Stalingrad, now ware ap proaching the border of Stnl--(Continued on Page Two): , ' i Baseball i " NATIONAL LEAGUE J R. H. ; E. Chicago '.... 2 13 " 1 Boston 1 2 - 0 Passoau and Schefflng; Javery and Lombard), R. H. E. St. Louis ; 7 14 0 Philadelphia 0 10 0 Bcaaley and W. Cooper; John son, Hoerst (4), Naylor (7), Br gan (6) and Warren. ' 35 Lost in Two Atlantic By Tha Associated Pratt ' Tho navy today announced two more sinkings in the west ern Atlontlo with a loss of 35 lives. Fifty crewmen' were saved, 18 of them through: the heroic sacrifice, bf a 25-year-old seaman aboard a U. S. cargo ves sel. Tho loss of the medium-sized American vessel, sent to the bot tom June 28 about 850 miles off the east coast, and a small Brit ish ship torpedoed In the Carib bean' May 28 raised to 305 the unofficial Associated Press tabu lation of United Nations and neu tral sinkings in the western At lantic since Pearl Harbor, Sinking of the British craft cost tho lives of 18 men from a crew of 48. Two torpedoes rip ped Into the ship and the gun ners had no chance to fir as the attacking U-boat did not sur face. .' ' ;' Gave Life ' ' " Survivors from tho U, S; ship snld at an east coast' port that Miles Nnlkln save his life In re mm j u DON GROSSED 0 IDEFH ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS r rvP y 19 WQU Second Front Appeal Mounts , In Britain By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, July , 22 W) Ap peals for a British and Amer ican Invasion of Europe to es tablish a second front this year mounted today while the Rus sians reolcd back ' under tha blows of German armed forces. Tho Electrical Trades union unanimously adopted a resolu tion similar to the one In which the Mine Workers federation yesterday urged the government to open a second front. The com munist party in London called a moss meeting for tonight and planned a mass demonstration in Trafalgar Square Sunday to voice its demands for Invasion. Speculation on tho opening of a second front was sharpened by reports thot Sir John Dill, Brit ain's chief military representa tive In the United States, was returning soon, presumably to Join discussions among Primo Minister Churchill and high leaders of the British and Amer ican armed rervlces. , 'Dill's Jot? 'Is one oMfason be tween tht U. S. and Brl4h..gen era! staffs.-' fact wWch? unof fj (Continued on Paga Two) B Allies -Attack Convoy Off Southeast New.; Guinea Coast GENERAL M a c A R THUR'S HEADQUARTERS, A u s t ralla, July 22. (AP) Allied bomber scored a direct hit on a Jap anese transport In an attack yesterday, on a convoy of the southeast New Guinea coast, a headquarters communique said today. The convoy was spotted off Ambasl Buna, about 100 miles across the Papuan peninsulu from allied-held Port Moresby, indicating possibly an enemy effort to broaden 'holdings be low Snlamnua and Lae. - The convoy attack was the first on Japanese shipping In that sector since July 1 when bombs from an American plane In a mass raid upon Salamaua and Lae left a warship In flames. In an attack six days earlier a 4000-ton Japanese ship was sunk at Lae. General MacArthur conferred today with Prime Minister Peter Frascr; of Now Zealand, Aus tralian Prime- Minister John Curtln and other high officials at Sydney. Brig. Gen. Patrick Hurley, U. S. minister to New Zealand, and Vice Admiral Her bert F. Leary, allied naval com mander, attended. . I Western Ship Sinkings leasing rafts which saved 16 sea men from the 37-man crew. The man were on the rafts 19 days before being rescued. . Cruising In the ship's' wreck age, they fished potatoes and on ions out of the water to supple ment their store of biscuits. Oil er William Thompson deftly used an oar to black-jack fish who came to the surface to nib ble on.seawoed. "Raw fish are delicious," Thompson said, "especially after you get to like uncooked onions and potatoes." . : V Sinkings Announced . . ' The navy yesterday , an nounced the sinking of four ves sels, including .two American merchantmen, a ; small British cargo vessel and a Portuguese fishing craft, shelled In the day light despite Its neutral markings.''-'. .''"'''...'" The hevy said' the sinking oi the Portuguese vessel' In, the nbrth Atlantic June 5 was the first submarine attack In the At- (Continued on' Page Two) IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, T TO BEJOBEO Conversion of 9 Ship yards to Plane Con struction Eyed WASHINGTON. July 22 P) Tho maritime commission re fused today to rescind its action in cancelling a contract held by Andrew J. Higgins of New Or leans, for the construction of 200 emergency cargo ships. Tho commission, which heard Higgins this morning, issued a statement later saying it regret ted "that In the .face' of avail able facta it cannot rescind the action taken on July 18," ' The commlstron had cancelled the Hlgglns contract on ' the ground-that shipyards already in production or toon to be in pro duction could use all available steel for merchant shipbuilding, and that the Higgins yard could not start large scale production until 1943. 1 Investigation ' The senate defense Investigat ing commlMee. annojinqtd :today , it would lnoulre Into the caricel- laJB f , tb Vilirti jahippuild Ing contract; a scheme ,W; con struct giant . air freighters In lieu of ships and ' the crucial problem of steel for either pro ject. '. ,( Senator ' Truman (D-Mo.). Chairman of the committee, said in a formal statement that. An drew Jackson Higgins,. proprie tor of the New Orleans ' yard which was to' build 200 cargo ships, and officials of the mari time commission, which cancel led the contract,, would be heard in public hearings that start July 28. , This morning Hlgglns confer red for more than an hour with (Continued on Page Two) Stolen Agency Safe Found On Highway Battered and with its paper contents scattered In the brush, the stolen Klamath Agency store and postoffice safe was found Tuesday night near the Agcncy-Chiloquln road. Missing from the strong box was about $700 In cash. -l The .safe - was stolen, ' from Orvllle Elliott's agency store some time Monday night.. The thieves entered the store by forcing the front door with a pinch-bar. They then apparently carted the safe away in a ve hicle, punched the combination and cracked it open The postoffice Is located in Elliott's store and many postof fice records as well as store and personal papers were scat tered about by the thieves as they hunted for postoffice and store cash.. Sheriff's, state and federal of ficers were Investigating the robbery Wednesday. . The safe, weighing about 350 pounds, was found by Indian Officer John Arkell about two miles. frorn, the agency store. 1 Wage Stabilization Conference Slated , , ;. WASHINGTON, July 22 (P) Representatives of two business organizations and the two chief Ainlon groups, it. was learned to days-will Join in a wage' stabili zation conference tomorrow at the White House.5 ", ; '. The meeting Is to be attended by representatives of the United States chamber of commerce, the National Association of Manu facturers and members of the la bor war cabinet, which Includes lenders' of the CIO and the AFL With William Green; AFL -chief, and Philip Murray, CIO 'presi dent, as the top ranking mem bers. ' ' IT C CANCELLAT ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1942 Ml ML a-abj- First gam machine to ba destroyed here in tha current driva for wartime moral uplift ii thb plnball gadget, confiscated from its owner, Louie Polln, on order Of tha Justice of tha peace. Hara tha machine ia pictured after a few blows of a heaTy hammer had-ruined Its intricate mechanism. In the picture,' laft-io lgh.li ar.!Cposteijlai Gary Cosa' ,6tnte Police -Sergeant Earl Tichanor and Deputy Sheriff Dlfc.Matoon. ?Ity P9U participated fn nyestlgatIon of thia ease. . . 13 ' QrpbeFS-s'Fail'Vto Return From 1 Assault LONDON, July 22 () The air ministry announced today that many large and Widespread fires were started in an attack last night on Duisburg, Gar many, by a strong RAF force during widespread : operations from which 13 bombers failed to return. ', r . An RAF informant said more them 300 planes took part in the assault upon the German' in dustrial center. They were fav ored by good bombing weather. (The Germans said six British raiders were shot down' in at tacks which caused civilian cas ualties in Duisburg and Moers. The Germans said the raiders dropped "a fairly great number of high explosive and incendiary bombs.") Duisburg, a large industrial town at the junction of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers, was the main objective among tar gets' in the Ruhr valley. It was last raided at night July 13 and the Germans announced it was attacked by daylight last Sat urday. "Intruder patrols were main tained over enemy airdromes in Franco and the low countries by aircraft of the bomber command and the fighter command,";: it was announced.- - - ' "Thirteen of our bombers are missing from these operations.'.' Shortage of Meat Reported in Eastern Cities ... . By The Associated Press A shortage of meat was re ported today In several cities. Some stores' in Akron, O., an nounced they were out of meat. Beef deliveries to Boston were 75 to 80 per cent below normal and wholesale dealers there met to seek a solution to the prob lem: ' ' . Office of price administration officials in Washington ac knowledged the dearth of meat In Akron but expressed the opinion that tho situation was "worse, If anything,, along the eastern seaboard." ! Chicago packers reported the nation's meat supply was "am ple" but added that household ers in some cities may not be abla to obtain certain cuts be cause of heavy lease-lend and other government buying and shortages of shipping facilities: NEA FEATURES Number r m What Chance Had This Game of 9 V 4 1 t U 1 i y p. . - ry .. ' A - ' A (--4 M; r - , iilmi mmt itam I'd ImJ ImS tA&MjkiMiiiJi ' MlltgfTuia J Striking AFL Truck Drivers Deliver Goods Si! LOUIS;. July" 22 V- .Striking AFL truck driver' be gan delivering materials to war plants ' today at the request of army officers of the St. Louis ordnance district, relieving crit ical shortages which had affect ed production at many factories. Arepresentativeofthe ordnance office said the strikers' agreement to move essential supplies had "greatly alleviated" serious problems arising from the walkout of 3000 drivers in a demand for higher wages from trucking firms in the 3t. Louis ' area. . :. - .. Earlier in the day, an ordnance officer, who declined .'to-- be quoted by name, said a score of plants were facing immediate shutdowns because of inability to get strategic materials. ' William Ryan, president of local 600 of the Teamsters' and Chauffeurs' union, who said the strike was unauthorized, blamed the walkout on a few unidenti fied "hot heads." -- .-. : NEW YORK, July 22 PP4 Action on a proposed walkout of 22,000 building trades workers constructing $100,000,000 worth of navy projects has been post poned until tomorrow pending the outcome' of a conference be (Continued on Page .Two) ': . ' ?M'' - ,'.,. ", bulletin ,'fkr;:;:: CAIRO, July 22 (APJ-l-Gen. oral Sir Claude J. E. Auchln leck sent his eighth army into an attack all along the El Alamein battle front last night and tha battle has raged throughout today with : tha British making progress but definite results still not in sight. - Agency to Make Rubber From Alcohol Okehed WASHINGTON, July 22 () The senate passed a measure to day to create an independent agency for the production of synthetic rubber from grain al cohol despite administration pro tests against interference with war production board control of the rubber program. '.. The measure now goes to the house, where the rules commit tee has given approval to an Identical measure sponsored by Chairman Fulmer (D-S.C.) of the agriculture committee. Senate passage was on a voice vote, with fewer than a dozen senators actually on the floor at the time. . ; - Majority Leader Barkley read a statement from Donald M. Nel son In which the war production chief contended that' creation of a separate rubber agency would 9546 n l yi Chance? ! lYif T?r lb 'Secret' Training Secret- Weapon" in ; Measure ' WASHINGTON, July 22 0P) Tne navy's Intention to. spend $30,000,000 "for a kind .of - sec ret training and a kind of secret weapon" was disclosed' by .Rep. Vinson' (D-Ga.)- today as the house voted authorization of- a $975,634,000 outlay for naval shore facilities. '''! . f- ilfT discussing the secret phase of ; the1 bill, Vinson told the house that this "is a matter the naval affairs committee should leave entirely to the prudence of the men who are going . to carry out this secret work." The naval committee chairman added that he had ordered' testimony concerning the secret plans omit ted from even the private rec ords of the committee.' . . - T-5'-f d6 riot'know," Vinson said,, fejscept.iri'the most general way where they will be located within : so many miles of the coast and so many miles back of that." The bill including the funds was passed and sent to the seri ate by. voice vote after an at- terapV;to eliminate authority for the'sepretary of navy to negoti ate . contracts for expenditures under the measure was defeated, 57 to 17. -From Rep. Mott (R-Ore.j, the naval committee's ranking min ority member, came the. state ment that a number of the shore facilities provided by -the . bill would be located In Alaska, Earlier, Vinson had Informed (Continued, on-Page-. Two)' . be a "rash act," authorizing di version of, critical ' materials from vital war needs 'to con struction of producing plants. : The bill was pushed to pas sage by a farm bloc -whose spokesmen, Senators Thomas (D-Okla.) and Gillette (D-la.)), charged that the WPB. program of 800,000 tons of rubber- next year- was largely confined to production based on "untried laboratory experiments", , from petroleum. Barkley protested : against a division of responsibility for the rubber program over which Net son has assumed control. "He asserted the attempt to provide for civilian as well as war needs was a mistake in view of the critical shortage of steel plate, steel, copper and air compressors. guiy -mgn j, low aa Precipitation at oi July IS, 19U Lait yaar . ..13.5i Normal vtll ' ,, ,- .....,...... ll.M Straam yaaf td date .......... ...,.. 13. IS (5? TO Admiral Leahy Named Chief of Staff to ' h Roosevelt" WASHINGTON; Julv 22 PU The Pacific war council met at the' White House today and one participant Teported afterwards that "we worked out procedure to be followed to assure that. China puts up -the best fight that can be put' up." . ' ,- ' -. Walter Nash,' New Zealand minister, used these words and added that "now we know, what tne Chinese need, and how and when and where we can get the stuff In." - . - T. V. Soong, Chinese foreign minister, told reporters that he started the discussion with . an exposition "of the position, of the lines of. fighting in China j the ': routes of communication,- soma of the problems, and some of the possibilities of develooine ths situation in our favor." . , None of the Pacific diplomats wouia aescrme any lurtner de tails, and when Soong was asked about . whether anything -. was said about the possibility - of i Japanese attack on Siberia,, he- said- "I would rather not answer such questions." . , , . . Lltvinolf ' . ' When. Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinofl came out of the WhItegou5ft he JepHe4 VNo" to questionsabout whether he and the president discussed the possi bility of a second front in Eu rope.! V-- -. . '. In view -of announcements of grave developments in the ocean shipping situation, .Nash's com ments, on supplying China ' may have referred to the airplane ferry : service which the : United States army some months ago es tablished between- India . and Chungking. . .. - .. . ' ' .. - -Lltvinoff for many months hai publicly advocated an Invasion oi western nurope to - relieve German pressure on tho Russian front, but refused to discuss fit with reporters today. ' i ' . Mr.; Roosevelt, in ' 'deciding strategy . matters in any of the pressing situations, can turn for advice to Admiral William D. tmi. ...u chief of staff to him he an nounced yesterday. - - . - . Aleutian Demand " -Rep. Coffee (D-Wash.) de? manded on the house floor today that troops and navy combatant vessels be sent to oust the Japa- bases on the Aleutian islands. "Don't kid yourself." he told his ' colleagues, "the ' Japs ' are) heading toward this hemisphere, i i: . , There was immediate specula- Hnn- that (thp nrpntHnnt wmil' create ;:a ' supreme army-navy Keneral staff about the granite- faced sailor . and diplomat who listens long ana taiKS snort ana wna represented at vicpy. Amer ica's friendship for a broken Trance. . v . . , i Roosevelt announced Leahy's appointment late yesterday and said the admiral would assume his duties immediately. ' Con fronting the chief of staff as he took office was a report by the war shipping administration that " (Continued on Page Two) ; Reckoning Nears j For Speeders i PORTLAND, July 22 (AP) Reckoning was nearer today for some 600 automobile owners who. drove more than 40 miles an hour or otherwise abused their "tires. Police turned that number of names over to ' the tire rationing board. - This , is part of a campaign to save tires by denying re placements to drivers who abuse them. ., 1 News Index j City Briefs .: ...,...; .....Page 8 Comics and Story ..Page 8 Courthouse Records .....Page 2 Editorials . Page 4 Information ......Page 5 Market, Financial Page 7 Pattern .:.Page 7 Sports ...Page . PAG F G GOUNG L PLANS CIA
